Riding-saddle



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RIDING SADDLE.

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RIDING-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,087, dated December23, 1890.

Application filed September 18, 1890. Serial No. 365,437. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAPHET S. CUSSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fredonia, in the county of Chautauqua and State of NewYork,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRiding-Saddles; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains `to make use the same.

My invention relates to a novel and valuable improvement inridingsaddles, the object of which is to afford a light, compact, andeasy-riding saddle which will not gall the animal, but which will affordfree ventilation beneath the seat of the rider, thus producing animproved article of manufacture.

I am aware that saddles for jockeys and other saddles have been paddedto prevent injury to the horses back, and also saddlecloths, which areused in connection with ordinary riding-saddles, independent thereof andforming a separate article from said saddle; but my main obj ect is toafford alight ventilating-seat wherein the leather seat and felt portionare one article, whereupon a horscs back is practically a saddle withoutthe ordinary jockey appurtenances.

The improvements which I have made will be fully understood from thefollowing description and claim, taken in connection with the annexeddrawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved saddlecomplete, with bellyband and stirrups attached. Fig. Z isa verticallongitudinal section through myimproved device; and Fig. 3 is a verticaltransverse sectional view through the saddle proper, showing theskirting also in section and the passage for the belly-band.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates what Idenominate the seat proper. This seat A is a piece of leather ofsuitable kind shaped like asaddleseat and a transverse space between itand a felt portion B, for the passage of a bellyband C, which passesthrough it and also through the loop-straps b on the flaps or skirtingof the cloth B, as clearly shown in Fig. l of the annexed drawings.Anterior to the belly-band space the seat is rigidly and positivelystitched to the felt B, and this saddle` leather is also stitched to thecloth posteriorly and along a rib or roll l), which constitutes the rearportion of the saddle. This rib or roll is formed of and constitutes anintegral part of the felt portion of the saddle, which felt is properlythickened beneath the leather seat to lit comfortably the back of ananimal.

In front of the passage of the saddleA and beneath the saine and betweenit and the felt I firmly and rigidly rivet a transverse strap o, whichis also stitched to the leather seat and felt, to which strap metalrings c are attached, and through which rings the strapsE E, bearing thestirrups F, are applied in the usual well-known adjustable manner.

It will be observed by reference to Fig, l that I make a row ofstitching between the rivets d d, which stitching, combined with therivets, fastening firmly and positively hold the stirrup-straps andprevent a tearing away of the saddle-seat or the felt.

I employ for the saddle a clothing composed of numerous thicknesses offelt, which felt is thickest under the seat-leather and terminates in aroll in rear thereof, the liaps of which taper from the leather seat,the thinnest portion being at e', and is of itself a poor conductor ofheat and which is elastic, yielding, and self-accommodating to the backof a horse, which is also sufficiently porous to afford free ventilationand sufficiently firrn toreceive and retain the rivets and stitchingnecessary to hold the leather seat in place; and it will be further seenthat by my construction of a riding-saddle the felt and leather seatforms a complete riding-saddle, thus enabling me to dispense withsweat-cloths and the like.

It is obvious that the flaps or skirting and main body of the devicemaybe ornamented to suit the fancy.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

As an article of manufacture, the ridingsaddle described, consisting ofthe main or felt portion and the seat portion, the latter stitchedthereto, as shown, providing a leather IOC seat, the saine having atransverse space beneath the seat for the girth, and the girth looselysecured therein, and the strap inten posed transversely between saidseat and felt portion and provided with the rings for the stirrup-strap,said interposed strap stitched both tothe seat and felt, all as shownand described.

In testimony whereof I atix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAPIIET S. (USSON.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM S. RANN, FRED W. PLATO.

